At 12:58 26/01/2001 -0500, Ari Heitner wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:07:05PM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
> >
> > Heck, why not have separate domain names for all mozilla.org's
> > componentised technologies? Then, they would all be magically finished and
> > usable! ;-)
> >
> > <goes off to register www.xpconnect.net>
> >
>
>Not to be negative towards the XPConnect owners ... but ...
>
>It's not a matter of "magically they'll be finished if they become
>independent projects". It's a matter of "maybe if they become independent
>projects, the people who have been offering to fix all the dumb crap that's
>broken now will be allowed to do so".
>
>I have been requesting the right to implement and submit for approval (and
>get guidance on along the way, since it's a lot of code i'm not that
>familiar with) a couple of XPConnect features, most importantly support for
>typelibs in multiple locations.
Anyone can do the work, granted, if its a large piece of pie and its a
flavour no one seems too interested in, it can seem difficult to get
started since most contributors need to feel that what they are doing is
worthwhile and not going to exacerbate the problem by effectively forking
the code.
On the other hand you can raise a bug as an RFE (if it doesn't already
exist) assign it to yourself and then publish the changes as a diff/extra
files in the bug. Then you need peer review and super review but that
won't be much different from IBM. Then if no one takes any notice and you
announce your fixes etc etc, in newsgroups and people are interested in
using them and implement them from the bug then there's little sense in
them being left out.
If its a major philosophy change then there might be a falling out between
mozilla.org and whomever then its for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to decide at a guess.
So, just do it! :-)
Simon
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